TET 68 RE OPS
Aircraft positioning data for CASTLE, UNION.
Slant
Altitude
Ranged
B-36 Effects
12.2
19.1
188
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B-47 Effects
10.7
20.0
180
174
9.4
9.1
42.6
55.6
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C-54-1
4.3
138.9
315
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C-54-2
3.2
92.6
270
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C-54-3
3.8
138.9
225
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Aircraft
(km)b
(km)b
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abort
B-50 IBDAS
B-50 IBDAS
B-50 IBDAS
Heading
Direction4
(deg)
(deg)
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ONTRETERE
Table 43.
Notes:
SF rom ground zero.
bone kilometer equals 3,281 feet.
“Indirect Bomb Damage Assessment.
The Test
The UNION cloud reached an altitude of about 94,000 feet
(Figure 83).
Cloud travel was influenced by three winds.
(28.65 km)
The low-altitude
portion moved toward the west, the middle portion moved east-northeast, and
the mushroom cap is believed to have moved to the north and west.
None of
the cloud-tracking aircraft made contact with fallout from the cloud mushroom cap
(Reference 16, Tab N, p.
CONTAMINATION.
33).
The Wilson 2 and Wilson 3 flights, in the air until
about H+13, detected no contamination moving toward Enewetak or Ujelang,
and at H+15 Wilson 2 proceeded to monitor the upwind sector of the pattern.
ingly, PC-1546 was ordered to move south out of the area and return to BiKini.
An early report (H+3)
from a sampling aircraft indicated an aerial
reading in the roentgen-per-hour range 10 nmi
290
(18.5 km)
south of the shot
amen
Wilson 2 noted low-level contamination in the vicinity of Rongelap; accord-